Randa Abdel-Fattah states on her fundraising site ‘Armed struggle is a moral and legal right of the colonised and the brutalised’. This is incitement for an armed struggle here, as Australia is a foreign-colonised settler country that has brutalised, and continues to brutalise in some areas, Aboriginal people. Meanwhile, the NSW state government is moving ahead with a NSW Treaty – their Treaty emissaries were up here this week speaking to all the local Northern Rivers Aboriginal mobs, and proactively working for a peaceful reconciliation. Randa Abdel-Fattah’s opinion on what a Zionist is, is about as insightful as a non-Muslim’s opinion on the religious and cultural connection to Mecca of the million-plus Muslims who go annually on the Haj to Saudi Arabia. Modern Israel was not created by colonising settlers that stole land, but Australia was.
There will be Jews and Muslims living together in Israel, whatever the two-state or one-state resolution, in a country (including Gaza and the West Bank) that is only approximately 400km long and 200km wide. New borders won’t create peace. Pro-Palestinian supporters need to stop the propaganda and look to how a future Israel, and Australia, will address the issues of the past.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
